Gastroenterologist Research Paper

Children are influenced relatively easily, and these influences can sometimes lead to a desire for a future career. As a child, I spent a good two and a half weeks in hospitals with a very low hemoglobin and an unknown cause for vomiting blood. During these weeks I met surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and specifically Gastroenterologists. Every day that I was in the hospital I fell in love with the idea of becoming a surgeon. At the time that I was in the hospital, I was eight years old. I went under anesthesia so many times to endure endoscopies, I had blood drawn too many times to count, and at one point in time I had countless IV's in both arms. This didn't gross me out, almost everything about it interested me. Granted this was not a great experience, it will always remain in my memory because this was when I realized, there was nothing that I desired more than becoming a surgeon.
My main doctor, Dr.
Warren Bishop, encouraged me greatly. When my Gastroenterologist, Dr. Warren Bishop found that I had a ball of vessels in my stomach and that I was born without a splenic vein, he called in my surgeon. I did not know him long, but Dr. Aimen Shabaan was such an influence to me, with his kindness, passion and determination. I was learning so much about human anatomy and understanding what goes on in your body. Although I say that Dr. Shabaan was such an influence, and indeed he was, Dr. Bishop was just as much. Dr. Bishop kept not only my mother informed in an understanding way, he kept me informed. To explain what was going on, he would draw me pictures on a whiteboard in my hospital room. Dr. Bishop showed me that being a doctor wasn't just about skills and knowing everything, but also about how you treat a patient and care for
them.

Since my time in the hospital at eight years old, there is nowhere else that I would rather be, than back in a hospital caring for my own patient. The only place that I could ever picture myself is working in the medical field, specifically surgery. I have found such an interest in surgery I have a love for it. I am so extremely passionate about everything medical that I indulge in it. With my father being a chiropractor, I find myself reading medical books in his office, there is something that has inevitably drawn me to a career in medicine. I have taken classes like sports medicine, honors chemistry, and biology. I plan to take honors anatomy and physiology, physics, AP biology next year. In two years I plan to take medical terminology and an allied health academy. When I heard of this program I knew that I had to do it, no matter what it took I was going to try as hard as possible to take part in it. I thank you for your consideration.